Tool-handle fastening



N0. 623,|69. Patehted Apr. I8, I899.

'W. L. MARBLE.

TOOL HANDLE FASTENING.

(Application filed Aug. 13, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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WEBSTER L. MARBLE, OF GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANKH. VAN OLEVE, OF ESOANABA, MICHIGAN.

TOOL-HANDLE FASTENING.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,169, dated April18, 1899.

Application filed August 13, 1898. Serial No. 688,479. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern: is provided with means for retaining itinthe Be it known that 'I, IVEBSTER L. MARBLE, slot, such as a rib c, toengage with the transa citizen of the United States, residing at versehole in the handle. The rib is made, Gladstone, in the county of Deltaand State preferably, by curving the metal outwardly, 55 of Michigan,have invented certain new and as shown. In Fig. 3 the ribs unite into auseful Improvements in Tool-Handle Fastennearly circular enlargement cat the juncings; and I do declare the following to be a tion of the twoarms of the fastener. In Fig. full, clear, and exact description of thein- 4. the ribs are about midway between the ends vention, such as willenable others skilled in of the fastener. 60 the art to which itappertains to make and The fastener is of such a length that when usethe same, reference being had to the acin place in the slot its endswill project becompanying drawings, and to the letters of yond the headB. These ends are slit lengthreference marked thereon, which form apartwise into three or more flanges c. of this specification. Thefastener is slid sidewise into the slot 65 My invention relates totool-handles, and in the handle with the ribs receivedin the its objectis to provide a safe and efiicient fas transverse hole therein, wherebythe fastener tening for securing a handle to a hammeris securelyheldagainst endwiseremovalfrom head, hatchet, or the like. said slot. Thehead of the tool having been My improved fastening consists of a stripput on the handle, the outer flanges areturned 70 2c of sheet metal,preferably steel, inserted into down upon the end thereof and againstthe a slot in the end of the handle, where itis reend of the tool-head.A wooden or metallic tained by its peculiar shape. The handle is wedge Dis then driven into the slot between then inserted into the eye of thetool-head the arms of the fastener, spreading the fasand a wedge drivenin to spread it tightly tener and the handle to a tight fit in the eye75 therein. The projecting end of the fastener of the tool. Theremaining flanges are then is then turned down upon the ends of theturned down upon the end of the wedge to wedge and the handle. preventitfrom Working out. The advantage In the accompanying drawings I have ofthis construction is that if the handle shown one mode of carrying myinvention shrinks the head of the tool cannot fly off, 80 0 into effect;but I wish it understood that I do since it is held by the outerflanges. Morenot limit myself to the precise species therein over, thewedge can be driven in still farther shown. and followed up by bendingover more of the I Figure 1 shows a hatchet with the handle flanges, sothat the head and the handle can in place and oneof my fasteners in theend be kept always firmly united. 8

5 of the handle, the wedge being ready to be Having thus described myinvention,what

driven in. Fig. 2 shows the wedge driven in I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patand the ends of the fastener turned down. out, isiFig. 3 shows the fastener and wedge. Fig. 1. The combinationWithatool-handle, hav- 4 shows a modification of the same. ing alengthwise slot at or near the middle 0 The handle A is of any suitablesize and of one end, of a fastener retained in said slot, shape, its endbeing fitted, as usual, to the and provided with a flange to be foldeddown eye in the head B of the tool, which is here upon the head of thetool, substantially as represented as a hatchet. Near the end ofdescribed. the handle is bored a transverse hole, and a 2. Thecombination with a tool-handle hav- 95 slot is cut lengthwise in thehandle from its ing a lengthwise slot and a. transverse hole, end to orbeyond said hole. of a fastener retained in said slot and having Thepreferred form of fastener C is a mea rib engaging with said hole and aflange tallic strip of suitable width and thickness adapted to be foldeddown upon the head of for the weight of the tool. This strip is foldedthe tool, substantially as described. [00

to form two branches or arms diverging at an 3. The combination with atool-handle havacute angle. At or near the fold the fastener ing alengthwise slot, of a fastener consisting of a doubled strip retained insaid slot, a wedge between the arms of the fastener, and -flanges on thefastener folded down on the head of the tool and on the Wedge, substan-5 tially as described.

4:. The combination with a tool-handle, of a fastener consisting of adoubled strip havin g transverse ribs engaging with said handle, a Wedgebetween the arms of the fastener, 10 and flanges on the fastener adaptedto be folded down on the head of the tool and on the Wedge,substantially as described.

5. Afastener for tool-handles, consisting of a strip of metal 0, doubledat an acute angle, and having outwardly-projecting ribs, and slit I 5 atits ends to form flanges a, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

I WEBSTER L. MARBLE.

lVitnesses:

RAYMOND BOUTON,

CHAS. H. SCOTT.

